| 词汇 | swallow-words |
| 释义 | swallow your wordsidiom to be forced to admit that something you have said has been shown to be wrong: 被迫承认自己说的话不对 I had to swallow my words when the project turned out to be a great success.结果这个计划非常成功，我不得不承认我之前说的话是错的。 Admitting & confessing acknowledge something as something acknowledgedly acknowledgment admission of guilt admittedly avowedly breastbeating clean climb down come cleanidiom concede confess hand retraction self-admittedly self-confessed self-confessedly self-confession stand take something back |
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